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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

A token must work as a necessary element of a self-sustaining system which is a public utility.

Mike Goldin • Mike’s Cryptosystems Manifesto

Le 30 juillet 2015, une nouvelle blockchain très prometteuse est lancée : Ethereum. Imaginée par un jeune génie de l’informatique canadien d’origine russe, Vitalik Buterin, 19 ans à l’époque, celle-ci reprend les principes de la blockchain Bitcoin (un réseau public décentralisé de blocs de transactions), en ajoutant la possibilité d’inscrire des pr

Stéphane Loignon • Big Bang Blockchain. La seconde révolution d'internet (ACTUALITE SOCIETE) (French Edition)

@Josh_Ebner @MarkLutter Martin Gurri: https://t.co/KXqvl35GPN Peter... See more

vitalik.eth x.com

It's easy to say that any application can be done more efficiently with a centralized service, but in practice social coordination problems are very real, and unwillingness to sign onto a system that has even a perception of non-neutrality or ongoing dependence on a third party is real too. And so the centralized and even consortium-based approache... See more

Vitalik Buterin • Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond

Ethereum is fundamentally about property rights. The Ethereum protocol creates a digital, self-custodied, permissionless asset whose value can be transmitted globally and cannot be seized or censored. Ethereum's relentless pursuit of decentralization is the means to that end. Any compromise on decentralization opens an attack surface for regulatory... See more

HackMD: Your Collaborative Markdown Workspace for Knowledge Sharing

Zurich-based Open Transactions is vying for the meta-project to end all meta-projects. It is developing a software program that instructs servers to connect all these competing blockchains, protocols, and coins within a decentralized, interlocking structure.

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

Researchers Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor made the first break toward solving these problems when they invented the “proof-of-work” concept in 1993. Proof-of-work is aimed at deterring attacks or spam in a network by requiring the users of the service to do some work, so that it would be economically inviable to create useless or malicious data.

Camila Russo • The Infinite Machine

Blockchains are multiplayer.